Pine beetle developing a taste for spruce

The small beetle that has already eaten its way through about nine million hectares of pine forest in British Columbia with devastating environmental and economic impact is developing new appetites.
Researchers at the University of Northern B.C. in Prince George say the pine beetle, which since 1993 has unleashed an unprecedented natural disaster destroying about 40 per cent of the province’s lodgepole pine, is now killing spruce trees as well.
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